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37% Ball Possession BOLOGNA and 63% Ball Possession FIORENTINA

Bologna 2 – 3 Fiorentina

42′ Musa Barrow                       33′ Youssef Maleh
83′ Aaron Hickey                       51′ Cristiano Biraghi
.                                                        67′ Dusan Vlahovic (pen)

Serie A Standing BEFORE the game:
Bologna, 8th position with 24 points and a negative goal difference of -3
Fiorentina, 6th position with 24 points and a positive goal difference of +4

Bologna losing the Serie A Week 16 game defeated by Fiorentina on Sunday 5 December 2021 at the Renato Dall’Ara Stadium in Bologna, Italy.  Fiorentina are now unbeaten in 15 Serie A games against Bologna (9W, 6D) – only against Triestina (19), Viola have a longer open streak of unbeaten in the competition.  Fiorentina reaching 27 points having now +3 points over Bologna.

Dusan Vlahovic become only the fourth player in Serie A history to score at least 30 goals in a single calendar year under the age of 22 after Meazza in 1930, Borel in 1933 and Angelillo in 1958.  Vlahovic scoring the winner goal for Fiorentina after converting a penalty in the 67th minute.

Youssef Maleh scoring his first goal in Serie A for Fiorentina in the 33rd minute.

✅  Stats before the game.  Bologna’s last Serie A success against Fiorentina dates back to February 2013 (2-1 with Pioli at the helm of the rossoblùs) – since then eight Viola wins and six draws.    Bologna and Fiorentina have drawn their last three Serie A matches at Dall’Ara: only once have these two teams recorded a longer streak of draws at home by the rossoblu in the competition, four between 1969 and 1972. Fiorentina have lost all of their last four Serie A away games and have done no worse since May 2008, when they reached five with Cesare Prandelli on the bench. Fiorentina have only won one of the last 10 Serie A games played in December (5D, 4L): however it is the most recent, 3-0 away against Juventus in the last championship. Bologna coach Sinisa Mihajlovic has not won any of the last seven Serie A crosses against Fiorentina: for him five draws and two defeats – the last success against the Viola dates back to October 2016, 2-1 with Torino. The Serbian coach coached the Tuscan team in 48 matches in the competition (15V, 18N, 15P between 2010 and 2011).
Fiorentina are the team against which Roberto Soriano has played the most Serie A matches without ever scoring or serving assists (12 total matches with the shirts of Sampdoria, Turin and Bologna).

👉 Lineup Bologna (3-4-2-1): Skorupski; Soumaoro, Medel, Theate; De Silvestri, Svanberg, Dominguez, Dijks; Sansone, Soriano; Barrow.

👉 Lineup Fiorentina (4-3-3): Terracciano; Odriozola, Milenkovic, Martinez Quarta, Biraghi; Bonaventura, Torreira, Maleh; Sottil, Vlahovic, Gonzalez.

Photo via twitter.com/ACFFiorentinaEN

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Renato Dall’Ara Stadium

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2021 – 2022 Italian Serie A Week 16

Bologna 2 – 3 Fiorentina
Sunday 5 December 2021
Renato Dall’Ara Stadium
Bologna, Italy

12:30

Referee: IRRATI
Assistants: GALETTO – MORO
Fourth Official: MARCHETTI
VAR: DI PAOLO
AVAR: LIBERTI

Goals: 42′ Musa Barrow (B), 33′ Youssef Maleh (F),  51′ Cristiano Biraghi (F), 67′ Dusan Vlahovic (pen)(F), 83′ Aaron Hickey (B)

Official lineups – formations – tabellino:

BOLOGNA (3-4-2-1): Skorupski; Soumaoro, Medel (72′ Bonifazi), Theate; De Silvestri (62′ Skov Olsen), Svanberg, Dominguez (79′ Vignato), Dijks (62′ Hickey); Soriano, Sansone (62′ Orsolini); Barrow.

Subs.: Molla, Bardi, Binks, Viola, Santander, van Hooijdonk, Cangiano.

Coach:. Mihajlovic

FIORENTINA (4-3-3): Terracciano; Odriozola, Milenkovic, Martinez Quarta, Biraghi; Bonaventura, Torreira (85′ Amrabat), Maleh (79′ Duncan); Sottil (85′ Saponara), Vlahovic, González (78′ Callejón).

Subs: Rosati, Cerofolini, Pulgar, Terzic, Venuti, Benassi, Kokorin, Igor.

Coach:.  Vincenzo Italiano